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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) Evening on Orocopio (Painted Canyon), Imperial Valley 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed 16 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. image 1
Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) Evening on Orocopio (Painted Canyon), Imperial Valley 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed 16 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. image 2
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Maynard Dixon
(1875-1946)
Evening on Orocopio (Painted Canyon), Imperial Valley 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed 16 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.

26 April 2022, 13:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$53,295 inc. premium

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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946)

Evening on Orocopio (Painted Canyon), Imperial Valley
signed, titled and dated 'Maynard Dixon / Mecca, Cal. Mch 1940' (lower left) and signed again, titled and numbered '#3261' (on the reverse)
oil and graphite on canvas laid to artist's board
9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.
framed 16 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Studio City, California.
By family descent.

Maynard Dixon and his artist-wife Edith Hamlin were in the midst of a major and final move, primarily for health reasons, from San Francisco to Tucson when the present work was painted in Imperial Valley, California in March 1940. In fact, Dixon crossed out his San Francisco address and added 'Tucson, Arizona' on the painting's verso.

The couple set off from San Francisco in the winter of 1940 "in their newly purchased, second-hand station wagon -- now embossed on the sides with his trademark Thunderbird logo -- courtesy of the studio sale." 1 The sale, intended as a weekend event, actually extended over the course of three weeks where paintings, drawings, "and cowboy and Indian relics" were sold out of Dixon's Montgomery Street studio, with sales totaling $7,500. 2

The road trip took the couple to the High Desert towns of Ridgecrest and Randsburg, then continued Southeast, where they spent a short time in the Imperial Valley before heading West to their final destination in Arizona.

1 Mark Sublette, Maynard Dixon's American West: Along the Distant Mesa, Tucson, 2018, p. 314.
2 Ibid., p. 314.

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